Super Bowl Credentials Down

12:14 pm EST January 27th, 2009 | Media | 5 Comments

doug williams and super bowl lombardi trophyPerhaps you don’t need to send the reporter from Sheboygans #1 News Team to cover the Super Bowl…

The number of media credentials issued for the Super Bowl is down for the first time in recent memory, according to the National Football League, which revealed there were simply fewer requests.

Although there are more media outlets receiving credentials than ever before — 633 this year compared to 576 last year — the number of specific credentials requested dropped from 4,786 for last year’s game in Phoenix, Ariz., to 4,589 for Sunday’s game in Tampa, Fla.

I was recently listening to The Mike O’Meara Show (as I do every day) and our local sports goddess Lindsay Czarniak noted that she was not being sent to the Super Bowl this year, even though NBC is carrying the game and the station she works for – WRC NBC 4 – is owned by NBC itself.

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5 Responses to “Super Bowl Credentials Down”

  1. SaveFarris says:
    January 27, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    This isn’t the Sheboygan Times not sending a reporter: this is the Chicago Sun-Times sending 8 guys instead of 9. Given the situation we had last year (Patriots going for the record, Both teams hailing from “Giant” media markets) verses this year (Arizona? Really?!?), it’s actually not that surprising.

  2. Oliver Willis says:
    January 27, 2009 at 12:45 pm

    True enough, though I question whether they’ve gotta send 1 let alone 8. It’s even less of a news event than the party conventions.

  3. Bulworth says:
    January 27, 2009 at 2:19 pm

    Bless you for linking the pic of Lindsay. Sports-goddess indeed.

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    January 27, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    What? 200 fewer people to stand around and ask some fatheaded lineman how he feels?

    Sure takes the shine off the game for me!

  5. Seth says:
    January 27, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    My folks lived in Sheboygan for a few years, brother even graduated from high school there. Sheboygan’s actually a weird media market, they got local news from both Milwaukee and Green Bay, so they had two of every affiliate, which was weird. Crazy buncha cheese heads.